BREAKING WaPo: A federal judge just ordered the Trump admin to stop cutting down trees at East Potomac Golf Links after preservationists asserted that more than 500 were felled Saturday and "hundreds more" were slated for removal.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal agents searched Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar's home as part of a criminal investigation, AP sources say.

President Obama has endorsed Abdul El-Sayed in the Michigan Senate race.

BREAKING: NEW YORK (AP) - Judge orders Trump administration to cancel taxpayer-funded TV ads that promote his political message.

Guilfoyle also said she was being blocked from attending a dinner for Eric Trump, and she wanted an American businessman on the guest list to get her in the door.

Another bad report for Kim Guilfoyle: According to an audio recording reviewed by WSJ, Guilfoyle boasted at Davos about her close ties to two Greek tycoons and said they were bankrolling her high-rolling trips around the world.

BREAKING NYT: The Trump Justice Department is investigating whether the major television networks — ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC and Fox — violated federal antitrust laws when the group briefly suspended their pooled coverage of Trump, according to six people with knowledge of the department's action.

Pew Research poll: Trump approval 30% approve 68% disapprove That's the lowest approval of his second term.

NEW on MS NOW: The FBI plans to offer the UFC an exclusive one-year contract to train its special agents in hand-to-hand combat. UFC chief executive Dana White has long been a Trump ally. "This is just Patel giving his friend Dana White a lucrative contract."

Documents released by a watchdog group suggest that despite Trump's promise to fund Freedom 250 events through private donations, taxpayers largely footed the bill. The budget estimates leave open questions about where tens of millions in private donations ended up.

Arlington County's local elected body has just sued to block construction of Trump's planned triumphal arch — arguing that administration officials bypassed a key review process in their push to begin work on the structure.

ProPublica and The Texas Tribune reviewed Ken Paxton's travel records dating back to 2015. Paxton has taken nearly 1,000 trips with a state-funded security detail, costing $3.3 million. The outlets could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to actual state business.

Trump bought over $1 million in SpaceX debt just days before unveiling a new space-travel policy. The purchase, revealed in his latest financial disclosure, involved a firm directly affected by the Trump admin's actions — and led by Elon Musk.

BREAKING Politico: Trump has just established a committee of inquiry to investigate whether Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook made "false statements in connection with one or more mortgage instruments" — his latest effort to remove her from the central bank.

An IRS investigator is suing the agency — claiming officials illegally leaked his confidential personnel records to federal prosecutors to punish him for years of whistleblowing on the agency's failure to tackle tax dodging.

BREAKING: NEW YORK (AP) - An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer shot and wounded a man in New York while making an arrest, officials say.

Trump made 517 personal trades of stocks, bonds, or other financial funds in August — including purchases between $1 million and $5 million each in Microsoft, McDonald's and Comcast stock.

Senate Judiciary Democrats are asking Chair Chuck Grassley to apologize to Jack Smith on the behalf of his GOP committee members — especially for Republican Eric Schmitt. The letter also demands Grassley turn over the underlying records Schmitt used during the hearing.

WASHINGTON (AP) - Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed in December.